One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. Anton Chekhov More Quotes by Anton Chekhov More Quotes From Anton Chekhov Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals. Anton Chekhov moral air play The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov aim honest fiction Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough. Anton Chekhov working-it enough people A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat. Anton Chekhov meat dog believe If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Anton Chekhov cry failing ifs I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life. Anton Chekhov tears heart thinking In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry. Anton Chekhov russia philosophy One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep. Anton Chekhov rifles mean promise Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years? Anton Chekhov punishment doe years If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure Anton Chekhov remedy cures illness If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all. Anton Chekhov capital-punishment execution prison In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say. Anton Chekhov mets crazy two A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty. Anton Chekhov Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. Anton Chekhov We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Chekhov A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. Anton Chekhov neither he shore left I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. Anton Chekhov day me wife sky Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. Anton Chekhov respect love friendship people
